Rack



A. EISNER RACK Filed Sept. 20

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Patented Nov. 18, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrics.

ALEXANDER EISNER, F BROOKLYN, YORK.

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Application fled September 20, 1922. Serial No. 589,289.

To all whom it concern:

' Be it known that I, ALEXANDER EISNER, of

Y Brooklyn, New York, have invented certain Improvements in Racks, of which the following description, in .connection w1th the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters in the specification and on the drawings designating like parts.

This invention relates toracks; and is of particular utility when embodied in the -con-' readily removed from. the rack or replaced,

and this I tprefer to accomplish by providing a series 0 uprights and a series of transverse suppprting members carried thereby le laterally into position to re-' and mova ceive the bolts of cloth.

Still another object of my invention is to provide feet with' joints of improved rigid- 1ty supporting the upri hts and lateral extension of considerably frame members in racks or articles of the character described, and I prefer to accomplish this provision by forming each of these joints with a socket having a threaded less diameter than the mouth of the socket, and I form the co-operating ends of the upri hts and lateral frame members respective y each as a male member to enter the mouth of its socket snugly and having a reduced threaded extension to screw into the threaded inner portion of said'socket.

The various features of my invention will be illustrated and described full in the accompanying drawin and spec cation and pointed out in the 0 im.

In the drawings: I

Fig. 1 is a view in front elevation of a rack in the, construction ofwhich my inventionhas been embodied; g

Fig. 2 is a vertical, sectional view on a larger scale, illustrating oneof the feet in detail, parts being shown inelevation; and

Figs. 3 to 6 are, fragmentary detail views of my preferred type of bracket. Y

In the embodiment of my invention selected for illustration and description, the parts designated by the reference numerals 1 and 2 are respectively the uprights and through the vertica lateral members of a rack for the support of bolts of cloth 14, and maybe of any suitable material and contour, such as metal piping. These are utilized to carry transverse sup-portin members 3 which may conveniently take t e form of flat devices suitable to pass throu h a bolt of cloth, and have journals 4 an 5, one at each end, to enter sockets 9 and 13 carried by brackets 6 with which the uprightsl are provided, the brackets having set screws preferably, as at 7, to hold them in adjusted vertical position upon the u rights, which pass apertures of the brackets.

And-it is to be understood that the front only of the rack is shown in Fig. 1, and that it may be extended rearward, as well as sidewise, by suitable construction of the .brackets' with sockets 9 and 13 extending rearward or forward.

In Fig. 2 I have illustrated another important feature of my invention, comprisin a form of joint of unusual rigidity, an which may be used'wherever found suitable in the structure of the rack shown, or in similar structures.

In forming joints of the improved type, I provide a threaded female or socket .part 17, with an unthreaded extension 18 for a considerable distance beyond the threaded portion, and I form this month of slightly larger diameter than the threaded portion, so as to ermit the ready insertion of the pipe or ot er male member 1, the latter havmg a. threa'ded portion 19 toscrew into the threaded portion 18, and any excess space therebetween, as at 20 may or may not be filled by inserting a gackin (not shown). The upright 1 should t snug y in the socket,

and the unthreaded portion serves to prevent breakage ofthe pipe 1 at the end of the threaded portion 19 which often occurs in the absence of such an arrangement.

erally atone end while being supported.

to support bolts of; cloth In Fig. 2 I have shown two such joints as Y laterally to receive a bolt of cloth, and to set-screws 25, and having mounted thereon an auxiliary loose collar 26, rotatable in a horizontal plane and having a hinge connection at 27 with one end of the member 23, so' that the-latter can be swung up and down on the hinge, and can be swung out support the free end when swung back with the bolt of cloth, I have shown at 28 a bracket secured to the opposite upright 1 by a set-screw 29, and having at 30 a seat or seats to receive and support the free end of the members 23, respectively.

Preferably the rotative movementof the loose collar 26 about the collar 24 will be limited by the set-screw 25, working in a slot 31, or a lug 32, workin in a similar slot 33 may be likewise utilize or as already indicated, another set-screw may be provided in place of the lug 32.-

I do not claim herein the various forms of brackets above described, as the same are reserved for protection in my divisional application Serial No. 738001 'filed Sept. 1.6, 1924.

Having illustrated and described my invention thus fully, and suitable means by which the same may be carried into effect,

wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the specific materials or structural forms selected for illustration and descri tion by way of example, norin general 0 I limit myself otherwise than as set forth in the claim read in connection with this specification.

What'I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A foot for racks of the class described, said foot having a bod member with floorengaging portions an socket parts to receiveupright and lateral rackmembers, said socket parts having respectively threaded portions of considerably less diameter than the sockets proper.

Signed at New York, in the county and State of New York, this 13th lay of September, 1922. ALEXANDER EISNER.

Witnesses:

ALEXANDER G. Pnounirr, MAURICE Lnrxon'r. 

